Cartagena Citizens spokesman regretted that CTSSP-we have backtracked on supporting the motion, filed by Citizens, requiring the closure of TV channel and website that created the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, to deny to the press and spread the 'official truth' and that tomorrow will be debated in the full City
Cartagena, Thursday November-26.
The spokesman for Citizens Cartagena, Manuel Padin, today regretted the step back from the Municipal Group CTSSP-we can to support the immediate closure of television and the web that the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, created to deny reporters.
Citizens spokesman Cartagena, Manuel Padin, recalled today before the media that upon learning of the creation, under the pockets of all Cartagena, a television and a new website to put into question the information newspaper, the Municipal Group of Citizens immediately recorded a motion at City Hall to demand the closure of this channel of communication, which also involve a duplication of existing municipal website serves as the statements of the mayor Cartagena, to deny any information of the media that do not conform to the 'official truth' Citizen Movement and PSOE.
At first the three municipal groups of the opposition Popular Party, and Citizens CTSSP-we managed to reach an unprecedented agreement to support this motion.
Besides the three opposition groups had expressed their agreement to support the modernization, boosting http://www.cartagena.es/ the municipal website in order to improve their performance and make it more participatory, to respond to political pluralism that makes up the city of Cartagena ..
To report can CTSSP-unprecedented agreement, PP, and citizens were to be held this morning a joint press conference to report their details and inform your time of several updates, after again unfortunate words of the mayor of Cartagena (exposed in their particular public television).
The conference could not be held as it was expected since late CTSSP-we have broken the pact to defend freedom of the press and closing the TV channel.
According to the spokesman CTSSP own-can, Pilar Marcos, changing decision followed a long meeting that lasted until early today between her and the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, among others.
Cartagena citizens unaware of the content of this meeting, and the reasons why the spokesman CTSSP-can, Pilar Marcos, has changed its position on this issue.
Manuel Padin deeply regrets this missed opportunity "three ways of thinking and understanding the different political, could agree on something as serious as the defense of democratic principles and freedom of expression of media professionals without authoritarian and intimidating interference by the current government team. CTSSP-Can has shown its true face, he prefers to be an accomplice of authoritarianism and the roll of the local government, to defend press freedom and participatory democracy ".
Manuel Padin ended his appearance before the media saying that "before Cartagena was managed with a rolling pin, roll the Popular Party, and now there is a steamroller with a driver named Jose Lopez".
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena